Here Are 4 Steps To Building An Engineering Skills Map

Considering a job
change as a software engineer? While engineering talent and recruiting is
always a hot topic in the Bay Area technology community, just what skills make
an engineer considered top talent? How do hiring needs at top companies also
evolve?

The team at STELLARES
launched Skills Mapper, a
tool that allows engineers to take a look at how technical skills trend over
time and see where their skills stack up. For developers interested in new
roles, STELLARES has taken google searching out of the process – and analyzed
what the trends in online job descriptions are by domain, sharing which skills they should pick up to optimize for
compatibility with future jobs.

Checking out the Skills Mapper,
engineers can find out which languages are most in demand by hiring managers.
In a survey of 300,000 job descriptions, STELLARES
assessed the languages that are most desired, and also contextualized skills
for different engineering domains.

What they found could
be a useful tool in the job search and in career planning. Doing a simple search to understand the skills required
and acquired by full-stack developers, here’s what we found.

First, we see trends
around React, AngularJS and Vue.js for full-stack developers:

We can see similar
trends on both platforms for the above mentioned skills. Since the data from
Google Trends is from the last five years, as opposed to the data from the
STELLARES’ Skill Mapper, which is from the last two and a half years, only the
second half of the Google Trends graph is relevant for this comparison. For the
period of the last two and a half years, the data on both graphs is quite similar – just a lot more easier to access than with a google search!

Building a new skill
mapping technology was a process STELLARES took over 30 months, and they
monitored the trends over time. Throughout this research, STELLARES found a way
to determine not only what skills are useful to engineers, but also how to help
engineers up the career ladder. Although the trends are still changing,
STELLARES’ AI bot for hiring at
top tech companies reflects this emphasis on matching skills to the jobs with
the best fit. Their tool is built to help guide engineers to the right team.

STELLARES published
their Skills Mapper in May, and have already started placing candidates that
used the tool to understand their position in the marketplace. With their hands
in the hiring process, the company is continuing to build on the learning
recommendations.

If you want to get a
strong applicant profile as an engineer, with a clear understanding of how your
skills compare to the market demands, then this is the product for you.